Speaking of new music videos, the above one from local emo-rock outfit This Is The Good Fight for its song “Broken Hearted” was released last week. It’s a pretty entertaining clip shot around various Dallas locales–but, I’ll warn you, if you’re one of those kids who got seizures while watching…
Sometimes, simplicity’s the best way to go. Case in point: pretty much any song in THe BAcksliders’ catalog. That’s hardly a knock on the band either–THe BAcksliders’ straightforward, often Badfinger-influenced songs are something of a breath of fresh air in the local scene, which has seen something of a dearth…
Quite the coup this week for the Oak Cliff-based Kara Howell and Wes Darrin–better known ’round these parts as Darktown Strutters–who found themselves namedropped by The Big Pink’s Milo Cordell in a blog post written for influential UK music magazine NME. Seems Darktown made quite the impression on Cordell when…
In this week’s paper, Daniel Rodrigue catches up with founding of Montreal member Bryan Poole and gets to the nitty gritty of the band’s dynamics behind enigmatic frontman Kevin Barnes.”It’s not a normal band now,” Poole concedes. “It’s not a democratically creative band. It’s Kevin’s band. They’re his ideas. They’re…
Over on Unfair Park, Wilonsky–who is a better man that I, clearly–spent his Sunday morning recapping his thoughts on Saturday’s Homegrown Music and Arts Festival at Main Street Garden Park. No need to fully re-hash the thing in this space, then? Probably not. But, still, there remain a few pictures…
Hampshire, England’s Laura Marling is all of 20 years old. Which, yes, is super young. But, like a certain Dentonite who exists in a similar realm, Marling’s music sounds well beyond its writer’s age. Which, unless you’re Justin Bieber, you kind of have to do when you put out your…
We’ve talked plenty about the Homegrown Music and Art Festival in recent weeks, touching base on the fine-looking lineup (featuring Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, Telegraph Canyon, This Will Destroy You, Ishi and 10 others) and the fact that, if you buy your tickets at their advance price of…
There is definitely a tongue placed firmly in the collective cheek of Gil Mantera’s Party Dream, who come through town tomorrow night for a gig at The Loft. The ’80s throwback, electronic, synth-pop act from Ohio is currently on the road in support of its 2009 release, Dreamscape, which, indeed,…
Last night, budding rap superstar (and former handicapped Degrassi High student) Drake took to the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas for the latest stop on his current tour. Must’ve been quite the inspiring show, too, because, this morning, a new freestyle from the Young Money member started circulating around the Internet…
More choice footage this week from the folks at WeDentonDoIt. Yesterday, the Denton-centric blog posted the above interview and performance clip featuring Dosh, who, as you recall, played Hailey’s Club up in Denton at month’s start as part of Spune Productions’ 2k10 Finals Bash. Back when we previewed his Hailey’s…
Way back in November, we welcomed a young Denton band called This Old House into our weekly video sessions. There, the band wowed us with its deliberately-paced, heavy-on-the-atmosphere indie rock. In the following months, the band changed its name–twice, even. First, at NX35, it debuted as ODYSSEY. Then, a few…
It’s funny how something can appear to be one thing and actually be something else. Take, for instance, Sons of Hermann Hall. The 100-year-old Deep Ellum venue is a lot of things—cherished, storied, enduring, charming, one of the best and most underused and underappreciated venues in the region. Absolutely. All…
…and for ye on YouTube, your link.Last week, after two weeks off, we returned to the regular filming of our weekly DC9 Live at El SIbil series, welcoming in Denton math-rock outfit Dear Human into the fold. It was quite the time, too, as our crew and group of fans…
If you’re not here, here or here tonight–or, perhaps, if you do go to those places and they let out between 10:30 and midnight–then you should do yourself a solid and dial up KNON-89.3 FM on your dials this evening and tune in for some Sonic Assembly Power Hour action…
In this week’s paper, Eric Grubbs catches up with OK Go frontman Damian Kulash and talks, among other things, about the band’s DIY approach to its music videos (like the above, recently released, Rube Goldberg-inspired “This Too Shall Pass” take)–and its former label’s issues with the band’s ideals on those…
Well, ain’t this fitting: Almost a 23 years to the day before The New York Times returned to Deep Ellum and proclaimed that Dallas was getting its groove back, Observer music editor Clay McNear penned a piece about Island Records’ interest in the Dallas music neighborhood and its burgeoning scene…
Sarah Jaffe, SerynMay 14, 2010Sons of Hermann HallBetter than: sitting around in a circle and singing “Kumbaya.” So much for needing to work on her live show: On Friday night at Sons of Hermann Hall, before a reverent and crowded, but hardly packed, house, Sarah Jaffe offered up a set…
Because we know you come to DC9 for all your sports-watching needs, let us chime in for a moment on the upcoming NBA offseason, which the Mavs are already fully entrenched in–and, hey, so too is LeBron James, courtesy of the Boston Celtics, who suddenly aren’t looking like the senior…
True story. Read it here. And pop on over to Unfair Park, where Robert Wilonsky’s got more details. But, really, haven’t we been beating this drum for a while now? Yep, sure have. On a related note, this seems as good a time as ever to remind you that this…
In this week’s paper, Kelly Dearmore yucks it up with Michael Croomer and Curtis O’Mara of Austin’s Harlem while trying to get the band past the garage rock tag it doesn’t really dig:”We like to call it gay disco grunge magic,” [O’Mara] says while laughing, but not admitting to the…
Back in March, Jesse Hughey talked to area ivory tinkler Sean Kirkpatrick about his band Nervous Curtains’ new release, Out of Sync With Time, and how his gloomy project, originally meant to be a solo side-project from The Paper Chase keyboardist, was coming into its own as a three-piece. Despite…
If it seems like Minus the Bear’s been through town a whole bunch of times in the past year or so, that’s because it has been. Things just never let up for this Seattle-based quintet, I guess: Between EPs and full-lengths, the band’s put out 10 releases since its 2001…
